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EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič has defended the EU’s decision to provide satellite mapping to assist the search for the crash site of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Providing satellite mapping services “upon request for facilitating a search and rescue operation is not an act of political support to any regime or establishment,” Lenarčič said on X on Monday. “It is simply an expression of the most basic humanity,” he added. The Iranian president and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were among the nine people who died when their helicopter…

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